by Chris Becker
This is not surprising. Cringeworthy, but not surprising.
From Vice News (probably lead via front stabbed former Chief of Staff Reince Priebus):
Twice a day since the beginning of the Trump administration, a special folder is prepared for the president. The first document is prepared around 9:30 a.m. and the follow-up, around 4:30 p.m. Former Chief of Staff Reince Priebus and former Press Secretary Sean Spicer both wanted the privilege of delivering the 20-to-25-page packet to President Trump personally, White House sources say.
These sensitive papers, described to VICE News by three current and former White House officials, don’t contain top-secret intelligence or updates on legislative initiatives. Instead, the folders are filled with screenshots of positive cable news chyrons (those lower-third headlines and crawls), admiring tweets, transcripts of fawning TV interviews, praise-filled news stories, and sometimes just pictures of Trump on TV looking powerful.
What about Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull? Well, he too gets a folder delivered to him, containing an update of all his achievements and legislative victories, but only updated once a day (he doesn’t have a big a staff as the Snowflake-in-Chief). But nobody knows what’s in that folder….
But – we have an exclusive here at Macrobusiness! Have a look:
Well at least they’re saving on printing costs, given the Same Sex Plebiscite will probably cost over $120 million….